14 preliminary leaves, 324, 672 [i.e. 632, 3] pages ; 32 cm (fol.)

The printing of this volume was partly under the supervision of Joannes Oecolampadius

Greek and Latin in parallel columns

"The earliest published edition of the New Testament in Greek. The earliest printed edition was that given in the Complutensian Polyglot ... In critical value Erasmus' text is inferior to the Complutensian: yet ... it obtained a much wider circulation, and exercised a far greater influence ... Reuss enumerates 347 passages in which this first edition of Erasmus differs from the Complutensian text ... The Greek text is accompanied by a Latin translation and an appended commentary" (D. & M.). For an account of the circumstances of publication (which partly supersedes that in D. & M.) see Moule, H.F. "The Greek Testament of Erasmus", in The Expositor, 8th ser., 11 (1916), 421-437

The imprint, except for "Apud ... Basilaeam", is from colophon on last leaf. - Another colophon, on p. "675", is dated "M.D. XVI. kalendis martij", i.e. March 1st

Two different Froben devices, on t.p. & on p. [3] at end

Erasmus' Annotationes, p. 225-675 [i.e. 231-631]

Numerous errors in pagination; no. 131-136 repeated in 2nd count; final 9 pages, properly p. 624-632, misnumbered 618, 669-675, 672

Text on p.l. 2r, p. [1] 1st count, p. 225 [i.e. 231] 2nd count, within woodcut frames

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